On Wednesday 29 August 2007 10:22, Francesco Romani wrote: > I've mentioned libmkv above([1]). It comes out from handbrake > (http://handbrake.m0k.org) > camp. I believe those guys are doing really well on some fields, and > libmkv is one of those fields. Archive can be found here: > http://download.m0k.org/handbrake/contrib/libmkv-0.6.1.2.tar.gz > It is still incomplete, but is compact, is GPL (even I'd like more > LGPL) looks clean, looks nice, and I want to use it and, very likely, > to bundle with transcode. > But I don't want a fork of this code, so a careful plan is needed here. > Don't you think bundling third party libraries is problematic? E.g. Lets assume the third party library has a security relevant bug and the developer released a new version with a fix, then we are forced to release a new transcode version as well! Also we have to constantly monitor the development of those libraries.
Of course bundling it is one external dependency less, but i don't think this is the right way. Greeting, Thomas
